Setting up NFS
The Network File System (NFS) is a client/server filesystem protocol that was originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984. NFS allows a user on a client computer (NFS client) to access files stored on the NFS server over a network, or even over the internet. The NFS server shares one or more NFS shares with a number of allowed NFS clients. NFS clients mount NFS shares as regular filesystems. No specific application settings are required since NFS is a POSIX compliant file system protocol. This is the main reason why NFS is very popular as a network storage solution. NFS is supported by Linux kernel by default and can be configured on any Linux-based server.
In this tutorial, we will use a standalone NFS server for providing ...
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